Suggs v. LaVallee’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 1092 · 1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably United States v. Byers (1984), Myers v. Manson (1984)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]sychiatry is at best an inexact science, if, indeed, it is a science, lacking the coherent set of proven underlying values necessary for ultimate decisions on knowledge or competence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“8. That part of the record of the State court proceeding in which the determination of such factual issue was made, pertinent to a determination of the sufficiency of the evidence to support such factual determination, is produced as provided for hereinafter, and the Federal court, on a consideration of such part of the record as a whole, concludes that such factual determination is not fairly supported by the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reeves v. Mabry · Pagan v. Keane“3. The material facts were not adequately developed at the State court hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reeves v. Mabry · Pagan v. Keane
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.